Mar 08, 2009

TwitLinks It looks like the cat is out of the bag today. If you live and breathe Twitter like I do you probably saw that the accounts: @PoliticalUpdate, @ThreeOclockPot and @twtr_us were suspended. It seems these accounts were suspended possibly due to a blog post by Louis Gray which you can read here, titled “The Newest Annoyance on (Read More)

Feb 09, 2009

Engadget After BlackBerry types lay eyes on the 8900, the same question immediately gets asked time and time again: "Why would I buy a Bold over this?" Indeed, it's hard to argue that the 8900 isn't the better looking handset, but for now, the Bold gets to lord its fancy-schmancy 3G radio over the 8900's technologically inferior hea (Read More)

Feb 08, 2009

louisgray.com By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)In an announcement on the Twitter developers mailing list today, Matt Sanford, a developer at Twitter who has been leading the efforts to integrate Twitter API with OAuth, announced details on how the new OAuth would work. In the announcement, he released a preview of docu (Read More)

Feb 09, 2009

Scobleizer Is the Real-Time Web a threat to Google? Rackspace executive Lew Moorman sure thinks so.He’s right. Fewer and fewer of my search behaviors have been on Google lately.And last week friendfeed did something very important: made it a lot more possible to do powerful real-time web searches.First, the problem with friendfeed is (Read More)

Feb 07, 2009

Engadget Mobile iPhone users in the US have recently been hit with a "carrier update" when they sync with their machines, and a little digging reveals that the package contains two "AT&T M-Cell" carrier logos -- suggesting that Ma Bell's upcoming MicroCell femtocell is close to launch. Still no word on how much the Cisco-sourced hardwa (Read More)

Feb 09, 2009

paidContent.org 7 Billion People, an Austin, TX-based online commerce behavioral analytics and personalization company that may have to change its name every time a billion people are added to this world, has added $3 million to its own kitty. It has raised that amount in its first institutional round of funding from SmithCo Investments, a (Read More)

Feb 09, 2009

Submitted by Timedalkat from Digg: Very funny for a Yahoo employee. (Read More)

Jan 15, 2009

Submitted by Shashib from Flickr: Frank Warren of PostSecret.com spoke movingly about the power of the secrets shared on his blog. (Read More)

Feb 08, 2009

Gizmodo Auto-tuning, the practice of digitally "repairing" off-key vocal tracks, is more visibly prominent than ever. But it's even more ubiquitous than people realize, and some musicians and fans aren't happy about it. Auto-tune really only entered public consciousness with the release of that one Cher song that's somehow still pl (Read More)

Feb 07, 2009

Mashable! The micro-messaging service Twitter became popular in part due to the thousands of different ways to post and view Tweets…but what are the most popular ways to share your Tweets with the world?The Twitter analytics service TwitStat is continually running the numbers and provides us with the following, fascinating list (Read More)

Feb 07, 2009

Submitted by Warrenss: (Read More)

Feb 06, 2009

ReadWriteWeb What's got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 million users according to the site. That's about 50% bigger than Twitter, though Stumble is rarely talked about and never prom (Read More)

Feb 06, 2009

Mashable! Different tracking services show different numbers when it comes to measuring which social network is most popular, but at least one now places Facebook with a significant lead in the US. Compete has updated its data for January, and the service now shows Facebook seeing a full 10 million more visitors each month than MySp (Read More)

Feb 07, 2009

Submitted by Judithgermain: A third of HR professionals and managers confess to searching through employees' social networking profiles for information on their background and 24% are not impressed with what they find. (Read More)

Feb 07, 2009

Lifehacker Gmail has been slowly but surely rolling out cool new features ever since they started Gmail Labs. If you haven't taken advantage of the fruits of Labs, here's a look at 10 Labs features you should enable. Offline Gmail Probably the most significant feature you can get out of Labs, Offline Gmail takes advantage of Google Ge (Read More)

Christopher Franz